Episode notes
Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm he founded in 1989. Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard www.hope.com and is the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin. He founded and serves as the trustee for the Saylor Academy www.saylor.org a non-profit organization that provides free education to nearly one million students.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Promo codes
01:59 Reaction to markets
11:25 Inflationary environment
17:24 Supply of currency will continue to expand
24:20 Biggest surprise over last 2 years
24:55 MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy
27:26 Debt vs. leverage buying BTC
40:21 Betting against MicroStrategy
45:07 Luna and Terra meltdown
49:00 SEC regulation, spot ETF
52:48 Why approve futures but not spot?
53:39 iTrustCapital break
54:28 Fold app break
55:07 How do we get to $1m BTC
1:05:50 What's the world like under Bitcoin Standard?
1:14:21 Will BTC regulate wealth concentration?
1:16:58 How has Bitcoin changed Michael Saylor?
1:19:10 Mike Novagratz's Luna tattoo, final thoughts
